The Winner: Hello Kitty Bingo

Admittedly, I have short stamina with certain games. Don't Break the Ice creates suspense, but setting up takes longer than actually playing a round. A game of Uno Attack is unpredictable. You think you're almost finished, but then one press of a button tosses a dozen additional cards into circulation and generates another 30 minutes of playtime. Imaginative play with dolls reduces itself to vapid, arbitrarily constructed, exclamatory dialogues that drain the creative life-force from me.

Doll One: "Hello! My name is Emily. How are you?" Doll Two: "Good! My name is Sarah. How are you?" Doll One: "Good!"
Twenty minutes of playing with dolls can span a minor eternity.

But Hello Kitty Bingo? I can handle Hello Kitty Bingo, which is good because my youngest daughter wants to play it ever single day, multiple times per day.

So, this is what I did for nearly an hour this afternoon before my two older daughters returned from school, and it's also the reason that I don't have a more substantive blog post for the day.

Hello Kitty won out.

Or, more accurately, my daughter won out. Or, perhaps most accurately, she and I both won out. After all, thirty-one days of blogging about everyday awesomeness means that more emphasis should be placed on discovering the awesome bits tucked within the daily minutia, than on the blogging itself.

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We have a Strawberry Shortcake game that's our every single day, multiple times per day' game. The game itself gets a little tedious after the fifth or sixth time, but the conversation over the board; never.

I love playing board games with my daughter. I can't wait until my littlest is old enough to join the fun. We play a board game every night to start my daughter's bedtime routine.

Have you ever played the Peaceable Kingdom line of games? I love them. They're so cute and they are cooperative games so we work together to have a mutual victory. We have several; Hoot Owl Hoot, Stone Soup, Mermaid Island, and Count Your Chickens. So much fun.

I haven't heard about Peaceable Kingdom games, but I love the idea of cooperative games! We have one "team-building" game, and the irony is that my eight-year-old strongly dislikes it. She's uber-competitive. (No idea where she gets this from.... ha....)